Senior Manager, Engineering

EarnIn

7d•$267,000 - $326,000•Hybrid

About The Position

EarnIn is seeking an accomplished Senior Engineering Manager to lead and scale the teams responsible for building the platform capabilities that power multiple products across our ecosystem. You will drive the technical vision, execution excellence, and organizational leadership needed to deliver a world-class financial platform that supports EarnIn’s mission: to build a financial system that works for everyday people. The Mountain View base salary range for this full-time position is $267,000-$326,000, plus equity and benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. This role can be hybrid from our Mountain View HQ with two days a week in office or fully remote within the United States.

Requirements

5+ years of experience in software engineering, with 5+ years managing engineering teams; experience managing multiple teams is a strong plus.
Bachelor's degree or higher, or relevant industry experience
Proven success in building and scaling platform capabilities teams that deliver critical capabilities used broadly across an organization.
Deep technical background enabling you to guide engineers, challenge architectural decisions, and contribute to system design.
Experience building large-scale distributed systems, APIs, services, and frameworks that support multiple product surfaces.
A builder of healthy, high-performing teams where engineers feel supported, challenged, and inspired.
Exceptional communication and influence skills, with the ability to align stakeholders across product, data, design, and engineering.
A hands-on, pragmatic leader who balances strategic thinking with a strong bias for action.
A technical leader who moved into management because they care deeply about helping people grow and enabling teams to achieve more together than they could individually.

Nice To Haves

Fintech experience is a strong plus.

Responsibilities

Own and evolve the platform roadmap, ensuring that foundational capabilities—services, frameworks, APIs, and shared infrastructure—can be leveraged by multiple product teams with speed, reliability, and consistency.
Partner closely with senior leadership to align platform investments with long-term business strategy and product growth.
Collaborate deeply with product, data, and engineering leaders to accelerate product development through reusable, scalable platform solutions.
Champion platform adoption, enabling improvements in key business metrics such as user acquisition, activation, retention, and cross-product engagement.
Provide senior-level architectural guidance and dive into the codebase when needed to unblock teams or clarify technical direction.
Set engineering excellence standards across reliability, performance, security, and technical quality.
Hire, grow, and retain exceptional engineers and engineering managers.
Foster a culture of ownership, psychological safety, inclusion, and continuous improvement.
Mentor leaders and engineers in technical decision-making, career development, and execution discipline.
Ensure the platform meets the highest standards of stability, scalability, and observability, even as we move quickly to deliver new capabilities.
Drive rigorous planning, prioritization, and execution to deliver impactful outcomes across multiple parallel workstreams.
Represent the platform organization in cross-functional planning, company-wide engineering initiatives, and executive-level discussions.
Help shape engineering culture and processes at EarnIn as we scale.